Marlon Brando dressed up so nicely for his first audition that none of the producers took him seriously as an actor. "From that time on I determined to be the messiest dresser of them all," he recalled, and promptly gave birth to a vogue for torn T-shirts.

[There is another explanation for Brando early fairly as an actor. As Rex Reed once observed, "Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper."]